Seedcamp 2.0, 30 milion for Eastern European startups

Seedcamp is a micro seed fund investing in Europe’s best early stage entrepreneurs in the internet technology sector. Through mini Seedcamp events all over the world, Seedcamp finds the strongest companies, brings them to London for a Seedcamp Week and the top teams receive an investment of 50.000 move to London, and build their business to the next level.

For 7 years, the British accelerator has invested in dozens of Central and Eastern European startups, like Croatian Farmeron or Serbian TruckTrack, and now Netocratic has annouced that Seedcamp is launching a new 30 million fund for the next generation of founders that want to scale up their startups to billion dollar businesses! As part of strengthening its presence in the US, Seedcamp will also be opening a presence in Sillicon Valley, specifically San Francisco.

As cofounder Reshma Sohoni told Netocratic, Seedcamp will now invest from $35,000 to $250,000 in over 100 ventures in the next 4 years. Seedcamp – Mini Seedcamp events (among them one organized at Netocratic’s RockPaperStartups conference in Rijeka) have been one of the first ways that a lot of regional founders made contact with the broader startup community in their perspective countries. Seedcamp’s model and growth of its startups paved the way for other European accelerators such as Techstars as well as regional players such as Hub:raum, Eleven and Launchub.

According to Netocratic, the new fund will be dubbed Seedcamp 2.0 and is backed by investors from China, Russia, Europe and Sillicon Valley and will let Seedcamp do follow up investments to the startups that manage to scale their business globally.

Sohoni says that while 7 years ago when they started the challenge was even starting a tech startup in Europe like you would in Sillicon Valley, today’s European founders are far more ambitious and need capital to grow their businesses quickly. While the old Seedcamp model had a big part in creating Europe’s startup ecosystem, its founders have realized they need a new model to grow their network further. Network, Capital and Learning – Seedcamp’s Formula And it’s their network that Seedcamp sees as one of its biggest assets. Sohoni told Netocratic that its now far larger access to the US market has grown thanks to the success of its startups in that market.

Seedcamp itself boasts organising over 80 events involving 10,000 startups and 5,000 mentors, as well that 85% of their 120 invested companies raised next stage funding from European and US investors. Through the new fund, Seedcamp can support its startups in conquering the European, Russian, Chinese and always important US market. While Seedcamp will continue investing $35,000 to $75,000 for pre-seed projects, it will now also invest $75,000 to $250,000 in startups that need next stage capital.

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